People v Torres, 2017 NY Slip Op 06558 [153 AD3d 1368]

September 20, 2017

Appellate Division, Second Department

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The People of the State of New York, Respondent,

v

Samuel Torres, Appellant.

Lynn W.L. Fahey, New York, NY (David P. Greenberg of counsel), for appellant.

Eric Gonzalez, Acting District Attorney, Brooklyn, NY (Leonard Joblove and Diane R. Eisner of counsel; Gregory Musso on the memorandum), for respondent.

Appeal by the defendant, as limited by his motion, from a sentence of the Supreme Court, Kings County (W. Miller, J.), imposed September 22, 2015, upon his plea of guilty, on the ground that the sentence was excessive.

Ordered that the sentence is affirmed.

The defendant’s purported waiver of his right to appeal was invalid ( see People v Lopez , 6 NY3d 248 , 256 [2006]) and, thus, does not preclude review of his excessive sentence claim. However, the sentence imposed was not excessive ( see People v Suitte , 90 AD2d 80 [1982]). Eng, P.J., Rivera, Cohen, Miller and LaSalle, JJ., concur..